ILSI-Biomed Israel

Shimon Peres to raise funds for Israeli brain research

President Shimon Peres announced at the 10th ILSI-Biomed Conference 2011 today that he will set up a non-profit organization to support brain research in Israel, which will be headed by Dr. Rafi Gidron. Gidron, a co-founder of Chromatis Networks, which was sold to Lucent for over $4 billion in 2000, is currently involved in volunteer work and invests in cleantech companies through his firm Precede Technologies Ltd. The aim of the proposed NPO will be to shift the emphasis of research in ...

Molecular imaging to diagnose, monitor and treat disease

Molecular probes from Israel's Aposense show areas of disease on a cellular level and can even provide a picture that reveals the efficacy of chemotherapy. Israeli biotech company Aposense offers a futuristic way of diagnosing, monitoring and treating disease through molecules designed to detect cell death (apoptosis). While apoptosis is a universal process in cell biology, it plays a role in most medical disorders. Targeting cells undergoing apoptosis, for imaging or delivering therapy, can ...

Brainsway reports improvements in Australian autism trial

Brainsway Ltd. (TASE:BRIN) reports that interim results of an Australian study showed small but significant improvement in patients with autism or Asperger's syndrome treated with its Deep TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) device. The study showed improvement in the Theory of Mind (a designated coil for treating autism) and in social communications. The study conducted at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre in Melbourne included 16 healthy adults and 20 patients with autis...

Measuring Behavior and Physiology: Bridging the Genotype Phenotype Gap

This is the announcement for a one day meeting entitled: “Measuring Behavior and Physiology: Bridging the Genotype Phenotype Gap” that will be held on March 3rd, 2011 at the Weizmann Institute. One of the foremost challenges we are facing today in the field of neuroscience is to understand the ability of organisms to translate their genetic code into behavioral and physiological functions. This meeting seeks to expose the Israeli scientific community to the conceptually multistep gap...

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience will be held at the Hilton Queen of Sheba Hotel in Eilat, on Dec. 12-14, 2010. The site is now open for registration. The Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by several leading Israeli neuroscientists. From about 300 participants at the first Annual Meetings at its establishment, it has doubled in size. Members include neuroscientists and graduate student...

Neural computation, Brain imaging and Psychiatry

Neural computation, Brain imaging and Psychiatry conference will be held at Shaar-Menashe Mental Health Center (Israel, 27/12/2010). Questions and confirmation: Most@sm.health.gov.il Tweet

Stem Cells as Seek-and-Destory Missiles against Cancer

As published in New Scientist, stem cells were succesfully modified to act as seek-and-destroy missiles against cancer in mice brains Stem cells are often viewed as the ultimate solution for regenerative medicine, and for a good cause. Given the correct cues, they can regenerate whole parts of the body, and even re-create an entire embryo (although that would require QUITE some understanding of the cues involved in the process). It seems, however, that now a new use has been found for the...

A Novel Israeli Kit for Regaining Feeling in the Palms

Sheba Hospital will expose a Israeli kit for sensory training, that improves the brain activity for patients who suffer from a decrease in feeling in the palms The Department for Multiple Sclerosis in Sheba Hopsital will present for the first time a novel kit for sensory training, that improves patients' brain activity. The kit will be presented in the BioMed Israel Week 2010, which will be held on July 14th-16th in Tel Aviv. The kit is based on cylinders that come in varied textures, an...

Researchers from RAMBAM Hospital Fight Parkinson’s Disease with Imagination

A new research from RAMBAM hospital shows that Guided Affective Imagery (דמיון מודרך) can make the tremors of Parkinson's disease go away. The relationship between the mind and the body has never been fully determined. Worse, the field is wide open for charlatans, holistic healers, homeopaths, naturopaths and what-have-you. However, from time to time we get some ‘real’ peer-reviewed scientific papers that offer new insights on the mind-body link. Such a paper was recently published in the...

Avraham Pharmaceuticals: $9 M Funding for a Multy-functional Alzheimer drug

Avraham Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has raised $9 million from Yissum Research Development Company (the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Pontifax, Clal Biotechnology Industries (CBI), Professor Marta Weinstock-Rosin and others.   Yissum has announced that, together with the Technion Research and Development Foundation (TRDF), the technology transfer arm of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, it will exclusively license to Avraham the commercial rights of La...